If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

"It's nice. It's nice to live by the river."

As soon as he entered the room, before Chu Zihang could even bend down to take out the slippers from the shoe cabinet, he heard a leisurely voice coming from the balcony not far away.

He looked up and saw that Lu Mingfei, who had been looking lost and lost for half an hour, was now wearing a pair of underwear and holding up his mobile phone to take photos outside in the sunshine on the balcony.

Outside the window, the Chicago River, which originates from Lake Michigan, flows across this city made of steel. It is now the evening rush hour after get off work. Maybe the weather is too sunny during the day, and the last afterglow burns too much at noon and lasts until almost evening. At this point, the sunset can no longer be seen in the sky.

The sky is covered with white clouds blown by the lake breeze. The light shines down from the clouds and passes through a hazy filter. Therefore, the entire evening in Chicago is gray-blue. When the blue reaches a deep level, the lights begin to turn on. , faint black and orange lights point along the Chicago River to this end.

Lu Mingfei will probably see this beautiful scenery seven times in the future, because starting from today, this place will become their base camp for the next seven consecutive days.

Staying in a hotel for seven consecutive days was something Lu Mingfei would never have dared to think about before. What's more, the hotel he stayed in was the Hyatt Regency Hotel on the north bank of the Chicago River. The cost of a day's stay here during the peak season was enough to scare people to death. , let alone renting it for seven days at a time.

Lu Mingfei took a picture of the black and blue river outside the balcony with his mobile phone. Rather than describing the flowing river water as a mirror, he preferred to regard the river as a piece of frosted glass, reflecting the city's interior, mottled and gorgeous. The light is sparkling. The crowd of people after get off work are like barracudas flowing in the strip of light. The combination of footsteps, voices, whistles and the sound of the wind is the hustle and bustle of the metropolis in the evening.

Is this kind of environment really something I can enjoy for free? Sure enough, Lu Mingfei could not imagine the world of rich people.

Even though the college had said that the accommodation and meal expenses incurred during the seven-day stay in Chicago could be reimbursed by the Finance Department as long as they had invoices, Lu Mingfei still felt afraid that if he came up alone and encountered such a thing, he would still go to the hotel and find the hotel. People share rent.

After about 30 seconds of filming, the brightly lit Chicago CBD was uploaded to the space updates of social software. Lu Mingfei put away his iPhone 5 and left the balcony to go back to the room. Then he turned around and saw Chu Zihang's words. I packed my luggage in the unlit room without thinking.

"Wow wow wow wow wow" Lu Mingfei, who was only wearing underwear, was so frightened that he couldn't speak. He raised his hands to cover his two key points.

But soon after she realized that she was not a decent woman, and the person who entered the room in the dark was not someone like Sang Chong, she started to speak stumblingly, "Senior brother! Why didn't you turn on the light when you came in? "

Chu Zihang, who was sitting on the bed and slowly arranging his clothes and laptop, said, "I'm sorry. I'm afraid that turning on the lights will overexpose the camera and affect your video shooting."

What a considerate and good man. Lu Mingfei choked, and while putting the T-shirt on the bed on himself, he changed the subject, "Senior brother, didn't you go over there to find Lin Nian and Su Xiaoqiang? Why did you come back so soon?"

"Well, they asked me to tell you to pack your things and go have dinner. Su Xiaoqiang made a reservation at 'Giordan's' for six o'clock."

"Oh? Are you going to have a big dinner? French food or Italian food?" Lu Mingfei immediately became happy when he heard the three words dinner, Su Xiaoqiang, and treat come together, and he felt like he was transported back to those years at Shilan High School in an instant. .

After three and a half years of high school, I finally got up and had a good job in double digits as a prostitute. I didn’t expect that I would still be happy when I went to college. Maybe this was my luck.

“‘Giordan’s’ is a street pizza place that specializes in deep dish pizza.”

"Oh? Let's eat pizza? How many people are there?"

"Six, the new student and her family will also go together."

Lu Mingfei brightened up, "The little goddess finally understands people's hearts."

He thought that the little goddess would take them to some kind of French restaurant or kaiseki place where they had to dress up in formal attire. Now it seems that the little goddess is finally getting closer to the people. It’s good to eat pizza. It’s delicious and down-to-earth. The most important thing is He has enough calories. He was exhausted from running all day today.

The most important thing is that he can wear whatever he wants when going to eat street pizza. On a hot day, even if the sun has basically set into Lake Michigan, the temperature in downtown Chicago is about 28 degrees Celsius, and the river wind blowing from the Chicago River to both sides is strong. With some residual warmth from the sun.

"Anything to do after eating pizza? Go shopping in Millennium Park or go to the Chicago Civic Opera to watch "La Traviata"?" Lu Mingfei lowered his head and put on the black Li Ning shorts and asked enthusiastically.

To be honest, the city of Chicago is quite unfamiliar to Lu Mingfei. During the time he came to Illinois, he spent most of his time at Hilltop College. The brightly lit Chicago has always been unfamiliar to him. of.

I have occasionally heard that on Saturdays and Sundays, most students choose to take the CC1000 Express or drive to the city by themselves. Lu Mingfei has also observed that most of the couples who most often go to Chicago to play on weekends are one man and one woman. .

The most memorable time for him was when he returned to the dormitory with great enthusiasm after class on Friday, put down the KFC bucket, pulled the network cable, poked the button of the PS game console, and slapped his hands to summon the howling Finnish dog, but he was still very excited. Without his head, the sound of the sports car backfiring outside the dormitory almost frightened him to death.

When I poked my head out from the dormitory balcony, I saw the headlights of a silver-grey Aston Martin DBS convertible below the dormitory. The student council president with brilliant blond hair hit the accelerator and rushed out of the college with the red-haired girl in the passenger seat, heading towards the brightly lit big city.

The unrestrained energy born for the romance and glitz of the night directly broke Lu Mingfei's otaku heart.

We are all outstanding and eager-to-learn elite students in the college. On Monday, we have "Dragon Genealogy", on Tuesday, "Language", on Wednesday, "Reptilology", on Thursday, "Magical Mechanics", and on Friday, "Alchemy and Chemistry". After the Alchemy Chemistry get out of class on Friday, everyone started discussing with great interest where to go to Chicago for the weekend. Some talked about going to Chicago to watch a musical, some talked about a sailboat race on Lake Michigan, and some talked about off-season discounts at the Hyatt Regency Hotel next to the Chicago River. .

As the saying goes, the more serious you study, the more fun you have. The college does not care about the private lives of students on weekends, but only Lu Mingfei is the only one who still rushes to attend two days of "PS Game Learning" every week for the entire school year. .

Although I am happy and satisfied in retrospect, it is still quite sad to savor it. Even Lin Nian and Su Xiaoqiang borrowed the Bugatti Veyron that Chu Zihang won on the Freedom Day and drove to Chicago to rent a house. Traveling is traveling (Lu Mingfei emphasizes again and again).

In the end, he was the only one who spent time with Fingel every week in dormitory 616. One day, Fingel noticed Lu Mingfei's fantasy about Chicago and asked if the two buddies should also go to Chicago this weekend. We take the CC1000 express train to Chicago, but you have to pay for the room. Brother, I'm a little tight lately.

At that time, Lu Mingfei scolded Fingel and said, do you take me to check out a room, or do I take you to check out a room? All in all, he looked unlucky, and he didn't know whether it was because he was unlucky to get a room with a man, or because he had to pay for the room himself.

Huh? So based on this calculation, does staying in Chicago for seven days this time count as

Lu Mingfei suddenly looked at Chu Zihang with piercing eyes. Perhaps the look was too connotative and obscene, which caused Chu Zihang to look up at him. Under the questioning gaze of the upright senior brother, Lu Mingfei silently moved away from his obscene gaze. With his eyes, he let go of those homo thoughts. If Shilan knew that he had a double bed room with Senior Brother Chu for seven days, accompanied by a beautiful river view, I am afraid that beauties like Liu Miaomiao would fly up and chop him to death, right?

Hey, sisters of Shilan, are you envious? Are you envious?

Chu Zihang found that Lu Mingfei, who was sitting on the bed changing clothes, exuded a strange temperament inexplicably. If Su Xiaoqiang were here, he would probably be familiar with what this strange temperament is - the competition between concubines in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" This is probably how I felt when I was so smug.

"Lu Mingfei."

"Go back to the emperor, my concubine is here, isn't it? Senior brother, what's the matter?" Concubine Lu Ming suddenly raised her head and came back to her senses.

"Lin Nian asked me to tell you a message." Chu Zihang said.

"Senior brother during the day, you say." Lu Mingfei suppressed his bad words. He always felt that the seven days of dissolute life in Chicago made his mind wander a little. Now he is so happy that he feels like he can't control his mind.

Chu Zihang did not speak immediately, but put the notebook in his hand on the table and then turned on the LCD TV hanging on the wall. The daytime sailing race video inside automatically played, raising the sound to fill the entire room. Then he looked at Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei, who was beside the bed, was stunned for a few seconds when he saw Chu Zihang's series of operations, and then he became nervous. The previous happiness disappeared and he lowered his voice, "Senior brother, is there anything going on?"

He was very familiar with this kind of operation of turning on the TV before chatting in the room. During the field training class of the Execution Department, he was nagged by the instructor more than ten times to remember to keep communications confidential.

"It's nothing serious." Chu Zihang put down the remote control and continued to sort out his clothes, "Lin Nian would like to ask you what you think of those brothers and sisters who don't look like brothers and sisters?"

"Brothers and sisters who don't look like brothers and sisters?" Lu Mingfei repeated this sentence, and then he understood who Chu Zihang was talking about. He paused and spoke softly and became cautious again, "Do they have a problem?"

"I don't know." Chu Zihang said calmly, "Lin Nian asked me to ask your opinion."

"My opinion." Lu Mingfei was stunned for a while, then looked at Chu Zihang's shoulder and understood instantly.

Seeing that he understood what he meant, Chu Zihang nodded slightly, then sat at the table, opened his laptop, connected to the hotel WiFi and logged into the social software, and turned his head to wait for Lu Mingfei to continue.

Lu Mingfei's sharp eyes saw clearly the ID of the window opened on the social software. If there was no surprise, it was Lin Nian opposite. He smacked his mouth with a complicated expression, which was really clever.

In the end, Lu Mingfei still used this word silently in his heart, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there was nothing wrong. The ACE of the execution department should be so alert, whether it is towards his own people or others. He didn't know whether this increasing vigilance was a good thing or a bad thing, but he finally told Lin Nian the news he wanted.

"Let's talk about that junior sister first. Is her name Xia Mi?" Lu Mingfei said.

Chu Zihang wordlessly entered Lu Mingfei's "views" on Xia Mi into the computer. Only a few people in Kassel Academy knew about this ability of 'S'-level student Lu Mingfei. It can be called the ability to cheat.

No one, whether they are mixed race or ordinary people, has any secrets in front of the 'S' class. From the speech and spirit to the physical advantages and disadvantages, the eyes of the 'S' class are like scalpels. When looking at each other, cut open all the skin, muscles, and blood vessels of the other party, and get straight to the essence inside.

Chu Zihang silently recorded Lu Mingfei's "views" on the new student Xia Mi. After Lu Mingfei stopped for three seconds, he turned his head and the other party nodded before he clicked send.

There is nothing too special about it.

This is Chu Zihang's evaluation of Xia Mi described by Lu Mingfei. Whether it is physical fitness or special abilities, based on general calculations, he can only be regarded as the common 'A' level hybrid in Cassel College. Even some excellent 'B' level players in terms of physical fitness can easily surpass her. The one with the highest score in the overall evaluation is probably her spirit of speech.

"The Eyes of the Wind King." Chu Zihang silently recited the name of the spirit in his heart.

The bloodline originates from the King of Sky and Wind. The dangerous spirit of serial number 74 was first recorded in detail in the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. It was released by an aboriginal wizard and was destroyed by a waterspout on the sea. A fleet of armed sailing ships opened up new shipping routes.

Since it was discovered at the Cape of Good Hope, the Eye of the Wind King is also known as the "Cape of Storms".

Setsuna's serial number is 72, and the Wind King's Pupil is 74 two digits above Setsuna. Although the serial number does not directly represent the strength of the word spirit, it can also be seen from some aspects that the individual Xia Mi has a premonition from Norma. Being rated as an 'A' grade bloodline is considered to be on target, not random.

After all, 'A'-level hybrids are actually considered scarce resources. In war years, hybrids that can be rated as 'A'-level are powerful individuals who can single-handedly change the trend of local battlefields.

"What her brother said." Lu Mingfei's voice sounded from behind. Chu Zihang turned around and corrected him after hearing it, "It's a brother. They are brother and sister, not siblings."

"Oh, it's a little confusing." Lu Mingfei said.

Chu Zihang didn't say anything, because it was easy for the brother and sister to get confused.

"That boy named Xia Wang." Lu Mingfei hesitated, "He is a completely ordinary person."

After Chu Zihang heard this sentence, his fingers on the notebook did not move. After a moment, he turned back to look at Lu Mingfei, and Lu Mingfei also looked at him.

"Senior brother, what's wrong?"

"Nothing." Chu Zihang was silent for two seconds, then turned around and started typing on the keyboard.

There was a drop of cold sweat on Lu Mingfei's back beside the bed, but his face was still tense and he didn't show any weird expression. He breathed a silent sigh of relief when he saw Chu Zihang turn around.

He lied.

A lie that had to be told for very complicated reasons, a lie that was half true and false.

Xia Wang, the boy brought back by Lin Nian was indeed an ordinary person. His physique was even much lower than that of ordinary people. To describe it as sub-healthy, he could be considered excellent. But the only thing was that when Lu Mingfei used his digital vision to look at the girl-like boy for the first time, his eyes were pricked by a piercing and familiar word that made him feel a little cardiopulmonary.

【shelter】

This was the word that frightened him the most about that innocent, slender boy.